I very nearly used Libby’s not unkind but perhaps too accurate term “gun porn”, but quailed at putting it in the title, fearing just what search engines might send people here. The Stephen Grant 16 is all cleaned up– mechanicals by John Besse, wood by me– safe to shoot, and pretty– now I must decide …
Month: November 2014
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On “Best” guns, from the delightful Westley Richards Blog: “…the very best work is still done by men with files and chisels and, by definition, best work is what a best gun is about. When asked about the difference between making guns and making best guns, Tom Wilkes made the observation ‘it all comes down …
Deep Springs digest
Last week. The roads in and out are ridiculous… The valley bottom is dry… Though the irrigated land is rich. We searched for Bufo exsul at the springs, but it was too cool… Eli is as ever adventure kid. We had fun, especially Libby.
Another peaceful Tyrannosaur image…
… adolescents, from Mark Witton. Bird- ish.
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Brad has reminded me of the late great impossible Barry Hannah. An almost random quote (sometimes I think he wrote only quotable phrases): “Walthall bought an ancient Jaguar sedan for nothing, and when it ran, smelling like Britain on the skids or the glove of a soiled duke…”
Found Data
From The Eskimo Cookbook, Shishmarek Alaska, 1952: “Soured Seal Liver: “Soured seal liver is made in the summer here. Place liver in enamel pot or dish and cover with blubber. Put in warm place for a few days until sour. “Most boys and girls don’t like it. Only grownups and old people. “I don’t like …
Found– no, SENT- image
From Toby Jurovics, a Titian, early 1500’s: “Giorgio Cornaro with Falcon celebrates Giorgio Cornaro the Younger’s election into the Maggior Consiglio or the Great Council of Venice. “ I had never seen it, and wrote to Toby that I preferred it to the better- known Holbein of Sir Robert Cheseman with a Gyr. Henry 8’s …
Book Review #1: Blood on my Hands by Gerry Cox
Gerry Cox — the “G” is pronounced hard as in his ancestor Gerhard — was an administrator at Cornell until recently. In his previous life he was an English professor, who back in the 70’s at least once wrote for the scholarly journal English Literary Renaissance, where I was an editor. He is also a …
Book Review #2: Rifle Looney News
John Barsness and Eileen Clarke seem like such normal people that is hard to realize at first just how unusual their “lifestyle” is. They are ubiquitous in the hunting and gun magazines, more so than any other couple I have known (I dare say I have known many of the sporting couples of my time). …
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Brad Watson, who was on at least one of the hunts below, has just gotten his story “Eykelboom” published in the New Yorker, and it is FINE haunting story. Is the New Yorker publishing better fiction recently? I say yes, from all sorts of odd and good writers– I know it is not northeastern- chauvinist …